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TEEN RAVINE

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TEEN RAVINE’s Nick Rose and Dan Griffin want to get close but not too close; a sentiment that may well be the hallmark of a generation’s struggle with the desire for, and fear of, intimacy. It’s fitting that the band’s debut self-titled album was conceived during periods of isolation; Rose having recently parted ways with a long term girlfriend and Griffin having suffered a concussion that confined him to a dark room for a year. The two began collaborating from their apartment studios in Toronto as both an exercise in recovery and an exploration of physical and emotional alienation. As a result, the album has the obsessive intimacy of a bedroom recording while aspiring to the west-coast pop/R&B of the late 70s and early 80s.

10-06-2017

10-06-2017

“You’ve heard of phantom limbs? What about phantom loves: the sensation that a lover or relationship long severed is still within arm’s reach and the sudden jolt of reality when you remember they’re gone. Teen Ravine set out to capture that disorientating feeling with ‘Hall of Horrors’.”